A host of the NCAA's best athletes, including LSU Football members, gathered together on Thursday night in Atlanta, GA at the College Football Hall of Fame for the annual Home Depot College Football Awards. The event gave recognition to some of the sport's best athletes, and the LSU Tigers had the honor of having two players nominated to receive their position's respective awards.
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LSU senior defensive back Tre'Davious White was honored as a Walter Camp Foundation first-Team All-American, while senior center Ethan Pocic and senior linebacker Kendell Beckwith earned second team honors here at ESPN's College Football Awards show Thursday night in the College Football Hall of Fame. White, a native of Shreveport, capped his LSU career with 31 total tackles and four tackles for loss, while finishing tied for the team lead with two interceptions.
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LSU senior defensive back Tre'Davious White has faithfully watched ESPN's College Football Awards show ever since former Tigers' defensive back Morris Claiborne won the Jim Thorpe Award in 2011 as the nation's best defensive back. "Since my godbrother Morris Claiborne won it, it was a lifelong dream, I always wanted to be here," said White, nominated for the 2016 Thorpe Award, from the red carpet before tonight's College Football Awards show here in the College Football Hall of Fame.
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Dallas Cowboys cornerback Morris Claiborne has missed the past five games with an avulsion fracture, but remains hopeful that he'll be able to return before the end of the season. Claiborne wore workout clothes and stretched with the team for the first time on Thursday, and believes he is making solid progress after tearing a piece of bone off his pelvis.
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LSU interim offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger, center, walks with the LSU football team down Victory Hill before the LSU Ole Miss football game Saturday Oct. 22, 2016, in Tiger Stadium. Steve Ensminger will be paid a one-time lump sum of $75,000 for his role as LSU's interim offensive coordinator, according to a memorandum of agreement obtained by The Advocate through a public records request.
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LSU defensive coordinator Dave Aranda speaks with his players during a timeout against Texas A&M, Thursday, November 24, 2016, at Kyle Field in College Station, Tx. LSU defensive coordinator Dave Aranda speaks with his players during a timeout against Texas A&M, Thursday, November 24, 2016, at Kyle Field in College Station, Tx.
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Alabama defensive end Jonathan Allen poses with the Bronko Nagurski Trophy after being presented with the award as the nation's best defensive player for the 2016 college football season at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, NC on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. College football awards for the 2016 season have been trickling in this week, but they will come in a torrent on Thursday night at the "Home Depot College Football Awards," with ESPN televising the event from the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta at 6 CST.
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Lamar Jackson headlined the five-man group of finalists for the 2016 Heisman Trophy, which will be awarded Saturday, Dec. 10. The finalists have NFL aspirations, and their respective playing styles remind us of someone recognizable on Sunday afternoons. And in two cases, we'll reminisce about a retired player.
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On September 6th, 2014, Anthony Jennings tossed the ball to Leonard Fournette on one of LSU's signature toss dives. Fournette took the ball and made the slightest of leaps over an eliminated Sam Houston State defender and scooted into the endzone nearly untouched.
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On Saturday, Lamar Jackson will be awarded the 81st Heisman Trophy. He'll get a week to to celebrate his accomplishment and Christmas, and then he will have a week to prepare for the best defense he will have faced in his career.
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Blake Griffin had 27 points and 10 rebounds, Chris Paul had 17 points and 13 assists, and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the New Orleans Pelicans 114-96 on Friday night. Jamal Crawford scored 21 points and Luc Mbah a Moute had 15 for Los Angeles, which capped a 10-day, six-game trip with victories on back-to-back nights on the shores of lakes Erie and Pontchartrain, having defeated Cleveland on Thursday night.
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Alabama offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin on Saturday wouldn't confirm or deny reports that he will interview Sunday for the head coaching vacancy at the University of Houston while he is also considered to be a main target of new LSU coach Ed Orgeron's staff. Asked on the field after the Crimson Tide's 54-16 rout of Florida in the SEC Championship Game whether he will coach Alabama through the upcoming College Football Playoff, Kiffin responded: "If they'll have me."
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Nick Saban is once again facing off with one of his old offensive coordinators, this time Florida coach Jim McElwain , in the Southeastern Conference Championship Game. On Friday, Saban discussed the possibility that his current offensive coordinator, Lane Kiffin , may one day be a rival at another school - but as a head coach, not as offensive coordinator at LSU.
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The Trojan Family mourned the loss of Joe McKnight after the former USC running back was tragically killed Thursday afternoon. Former USC running back Joe McKnight was shot and killed in an apparent road-rage incident in a suburb of New Orleans on Thursday afternoon, sending the Trojan Family and sports community at large into mourning.
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